Yet single mothers struggle to juggle either working or finding a job and care for a child. In Rosanna Hertz's Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies, she talks about single mothers and what they have to go through in order to take care of their children. Women who work are extremely dedicated to family because they work around caring for a family and the primary source of income for the family is through their job. Because these women have no second person or partner to help them raise the child/ children then they must work twice as hard in order to provide their child with daycare or look for other outside sources to help care for the child while at work. "Unlike the dual-earner couples, these single mothers have fewer resources internal to the family to call on in trying to cultivate external resources- in broader kin and friendship networks- to help them put family first" (254, Hertz, FF). Women also work multiple jobs in order to provide for their children and keep family at the center of their lives. Most women who work multiple jobs or extremely long hours hardly get to see their children. "Her child spent four days a week being cared for at her mother's home and three days a week at her own home. Without her mother's help, the cost would have made it impossible to remain employed" (255, Hertz, FF). Long hours or no benefits, women must rely on other people to care for their children and end up losing quality time with their child because of work demands. Because women do not have that second person or partner to help share in the child rearing, they must create external relationships to help fill in that gap left behind by being a single mother. They must create "support networks" to raise a…
Since there has been an increase in births outside marriages, single mothers have taken the mother’s and father’s role by working to provide for the children then having to come home to parent, cook and clean. But even when there are births while married only about 36 percent of mothers stay at home with their children that are under the age of 6. The impact this creates is a more stressful environment for the children. Both parents always working, less time is being spent parenting and bonding with the children. For both the mother and father this is not easy on them either.…
Men are more comfortable with their wives going to work than they are willing to help out at home more. In the 1950s, women were expected to be good housewives. Women were not to go college and if they did it was only to meet their future husbands. Women were expected to stay home and do housework and take care of the children. Ferber says, “Housework and childcare continued to be viewed as the women’s responsibility whether or not she also had a paid job” (2). Mothers today are arguing back and forth over the “Mommy Wars”. The “Mommy Wars” is where working mothers are criticizing stay at home mothers for not working and in turn, non-working mothers criticize working mothers for not spending enough of family time together. Rather than debating the “Mommy Wars” some women are complaining of having to work “the second shift” once they get home from work. The second shift refers to when a mother has worked a full day and then goes home to do just about the same amount of work by cooking dinner, doing laundry, cleaning the house, and taking care of the kids. Ferber says, “Women do fifty-two hours a week in housework and child rearing while the men do eleven hours a week” (2). Men should be contributing to the housework more, regardless if the wife works or stays at home. The resource theory, proposed by Robert Blood and David Wolfe, “Focuses on the importance of accumulated resources of a spouse as the source of power within a marriage, which is likely to be used to make the other partner do more of the housework” (3, Ferber). The more control women have at work the more control they have at…
Since the proportion of mothers participating in the paid workforce has increased dramatically over recent years, women in the workforce have emphasized that the main problem they find the hardest is finding the balance between work and family life. As a result, a great deal of research attention has been paid to the impact of mother's employment on family life and on the wellbeing of children and parents. Research shows evidence that women continue to bear primary responsibilities for home and child care in spite of their entry in the labor force (Berardo, Shehan, & Leslie, 1987; Pleck, 1985).…
Quality time has become a password in two career families vs. a one career family. Many working parents try to set aside time in their hectic days to devote to their children. but what are the qualities of "quality time," and what differences does a a two career family have compared to a one career family? These along with some other questions remain unclear in today's society.…
This study attempts to investigate the relationship between the work and family lives. The research data was collected from 45 IT professionals working in a reputed software development firm based in Colombo. The company, having a flat organizational structure, has about a total of 125 employees working at a stretch to meet tight deadlines. The findings of the study reveals the level of awareness, the fact that the employees do experience an imbalance between their work and family lives, the factors which leads to the above issue and the methods which could be used to overcome the situation. Based on the findings several recommendations are discussed at the end of the report.…
Sometime found are those success in life.. their family love all disturb. children found that their parents have no time for them. specially women is the major part in home......So......!!!!!!…
There are obvious disadvantages to children having a working mother, but there are not so obvious advantages. Working mothers tend to teach their children independence, curiosity, and ambition. While the disadvantages often come from society’s pressures that a working mother’s career may be more important than her family. How do mothers choose what works best for their family? Working mothers who choose to work outside the home offer advantages and disadvantages to their families.…
It is hard to say if it better for a child to have a mother who is always home. It is also hard to say if a home as a whole is better off with a woman who is there to tend only to that home and not a career. There are obviously two sides to this argument but the main question is how can a working mom strike the right balance to keep her family from suffering because she is not there all the time. It once was about who is the better sex men or women, but things have changed. These days it is a fight between two kinds of moms. Working and nonworking mothers are constantly fighting and debating to figure out who is the better parent. Millions of women must think it is possible because one thing is for sure and that is the fact that being a stay-at-home mom is becoming way more popular. In a 2005 study, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an estimated 5.6 million stay-at-home moms. Which is a pretty massive 22% increase from 1994.…
First and foremost, many women face a difficult decision of whether or not they should be a working mother instead of a housewife. This decision is not made easily since there are various factors that can influence their decisions. According to the article “Working and non-working mothers: comparative study”, “there is 200 questionnaire survey send out, and got the returned shown 50.5% of 101. The rates of 78% were working mothers and 22% were non-working mothers. The working mother had better mental health than the non-working mothers, but had more stress of women was not having enough time to take care of their family. For the non-working mothers, their social life was too lack.” (Rout et al, 264-275). As illustrated above, clearly women are in the tug-of-war of choosing what they want to become. Such pressure to decide intensifies when women are fully aware of the time they need to devote to their family and work as well as the responsibilities…
mothers, either because of divorce or because their parents were never married ; and wives and mothers in record numbers are rushing out of the home into the…
The question that arises then is that if the families, and many times the women in question too, are not keen on relocation or on-site deputations, how would that reflect on their career graphs, how can one then claim that the families support the women to take up more challenging responsibilities at work?…
Leave work at the office. Bring problems from office to home, will not allow us a total disconnection but increasing the likelihood of developing stress and take time to rest.…
In these days it is very common for the husband and wife both to have full-time jobs. In each family everyone is equal. Everyone has paid the effort for their family. When the husband and wife both have jobs, they both have the responsibility to take care of their family. Some people say that housework is the wife’s job. That is wrong and unfair. There is no reason to put all the housework on women’ shoulder.…
re vital role in society in this century, the stereotypical view of women as house makers still stay. One of the reason to why many debate that women should not work after marriage is because it is the wife's duty to stay at home to look after the children. However, and in my opinion, I disagree with this sentiments. Women, in fact, should work after marriage.…